Not exactly, no, but I have seen several women as ‘best friends’ in the role, and they ran the range of confident jokemasters to nervous public speakers.

My advice is 1) to make sure to ask the dj how to best hold the mic so people can hear you 2) rest assured that the groom chose you for the role - he has the confidence in you - rely on that to help boost yours 3) prepare so you can relax - don’t overthink it past that!

I ran a dj business for about 15 years until covid and the sucky state of music killed the interest in it for me. We did hundreds of weddings.

The most memorable best man/maid of honor speeches were the ones where the speaker showed genuine love for the couple, shared a memory of them/with them, and delivered the speech from the heart, not from a piece of paper. They didn’t make it about themselves. They didn’t do a “roast” either. Those are tacky.

Honor your friend and his wife (often she’s had a vision of this day instilled in her from early childhood) by focusing on them.

EX-Twitter

Bait for what? Not trying to be argumentative, just legit don’t understand.

He sure was cowering under his desk like a little bitch though.

Thanks Oprah for your continued gift upon this nation of this shitstain.

Oz, Dr. Phil, and JD fucking Vance are all blood on your hands.

They should have had NOAA weather radios at least.

NOAA weather radios. They receive pretty much everywhere people inhabit in the CONUS. go off like alarm clocks when the NWS issues watches / warnings / advisories.

Don’t rely on one layer of notification. That layer will fail in an emergency. Have a backup plan to the backup plan. Hell, even a selected broadcast media in every market is required to rebroadcast NOAA alerts. Turn on the TV or fm radio for background noise when the weather is squiffy. The alert tone will get your attention.

The staff (or at least the staff leadership) should / could have had cell phones. Whether there was cell coverage is another story.

I’m the emergency manager at my employer, who operates a summer camp (not in Texas, thank fuck). We don’t want our clients bringing devices because of the distraction from programming and potential for Bad Things™ to happen. We don’t want our direct care staff carrying their phones because we want their focus and attention on the clients. We also have a well-developed communications, hazard notification, and emergency plan, however.

Yeah, it was the most colorful, definitely my favorite.

Man, that’s gotta be hell on any wildlife left living in the areas in which it’s used. (I mean, I get the necessity, but dang)

Tillers too when this war ends (with Russia’s defeat) and it’s time to plant crops.

Ahem…

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Where, exactly?

Yeah, it would have to be stripped down to the ribs not just to add all the comms, security, defense, and other systems, but also to assure there weren’t any security vulnerabilities hiding somewhere. Hell, coming from a hostile foreign nation, I’d be suspicious of the flight management system and the “fasten seatbelts” lights!

How about re-entering the US as a US citizen with a passport doesn’t have a gender matching their birth certificate?

Yeah, that’s a thing that’s happened in the last 100-ish days…

Now do putin!

The current iteration of the GOP in the senate and congress resembles that of a drying jellyfish on a beach: spineless and worthless (no disrespect to actual dying jellyfish on the beach, who serve admirably in the food chain) . They will do whatever the fuck their god emperor tells them to do.

They confirmed RFK Jr. for fuck’s sake.

There’s fucking video of eric(?) saying: “we don’t rely on American banks; we have all the support we need from Russia”

For what it’s worth, my congress cretin is loving polishing trump’s asshole and ceding away congressional oversight to the executive branch. At a town hall lady week, he said that the DOGE department was always DOGE, they just changed the acronym (wat?!) and it was always under the executive branch, not an independent federal agency.

I think that was implied

Apathy. Apathy is what happens next.

“I have bills to pay, I’m not taking time off to protest”

“I’m not the one being deported, sure, I feel bad but it’s not like one voice will make a difference”

Etc…